int_19h

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by int_19h 11mo ago
The "weird" part about Hungarian names and words for English speakers is that "y" is a modifier letter in most cases, not a sound in and of itself. So e.g. "Nagy" is pronounced closer to something like "Na
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The worst bug in my career was when the app would reliably crash if you left it running for "long enough" - but still non-probabilistically, so sometimes it would happen in an hour, sometimes in three. The crash itself was quickly
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I kinda wonder if at some point this is something we might use the LLM more directly for. As in, train them on raw binary dumps as input.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Just about everything about Agile as it is actually practiced IRL by most workplaces is "misuses X". At some point one can't help but wonder: if almost everyone is "misusing" it, then maybe it's a problem with
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by int_19h 11mo ago
What's wrong with the back button there? It seems to be working fine.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Ukraine has a severe manpower problem, while Russia hasn't even implemented full mobilization yet. They can keep grinding down the existing defenses until there are simply not enough Ukrainians in uniform left to hold the tide, and the
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by int_19h 11mo ago
From the Russia POV invading Ukraine was a consequence of a deeply entrenched belief that Ukrainians "aren't a real people" and that Ukrainian is "not a real language", and that Ukraine is basically Russian territor
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The initial expectation was for Ukraine to fall in weeks. The convoys that were headed for Kyiv had Rosgvardia in them - that's basically riot police, not military troops, and they were equipped as such. So no, they were absolutely goi
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by int_19h 11mo ago
You are conveniently omitting the reason why all those Eastern European states wanted to join NATO, which is that they were previously invaded and occupied by USSR and/or Imperial Russia, in some cases more than once (e.g. Poland).
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It was an explicit decision by both CIS and UN. Russia took USSR's seat on UNSC two weeks after USSR was dissolved, and that happened in 1991. Budapest Memorandum was negotiated 3 years later, by which time this was already a firmly es
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I do think we need to encourage raising children specifically, but if UBI is assigned regardless of age, then that effectively works out to the same thing - parents will just use those checks for childcare costs, and having more children wo
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Yes, I did the math. Wish I still had the spreadsheet. It's not as simple as multiplying the population. The point is that if everyone gets that check, then you can raise the nominal tax rate much higher but still get the effective t
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by int_19h 11mo ago
That is true, but your reply generalized far more broadly, and you were rightly called out on that.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I added the qualifier "legal" because that's the one I can speak of from experience. For illegal immigrants, I would say that if successful in crossing the border, they are in a more privileged position compared to their comp
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by int_19h 11mo ago
base64 specifically is something that the original GPT-4.0 could decode reliably all by itself.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Gemini is a lot more bang for the buck. It's not just cheaper per token, but with the subscription, you also get e.g. a lot more Deep Research calls (IIRC it's something like 20 per day ) compared to Anthropic offerings. Also, Ge
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Not necessarily. For example, if most of society's wealth is concentrated with a few people, and the rest can get crumbs from that table only by serving the wealthy, then a situation where something is delivered with fewer people at lo
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by int_19h 11mo ago
At this point I don't think the constitution has much meaning left to it. So many matters have already saw massive changes, sometimes even going back and forth on it. And Wickard v Filburn is still standing precedent. In this kind of
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The churn is largely an artifact of our electoral system IMO. If party seats followed national votes proportionally, the change would be far more gradual without the swings. Of course, it's also not going to happen because proportional
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Speaking as an immigrant: yes, absolutely! Legal immigrants generally have to be quite privileged in their place of origin to have the education level necessary to clear the bar in most places to be considered for any kind of visa that allo
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by int_19h 11mo ago
We need a public healthcare system, but whether it should be single payer is not readily evident, and I rather suspect that clinging to that particular model is what's causing progressives to get stuck trying to push it through. It&#x2
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by int_19h 11mo ago
What do you think patriotism is, if not "community sacrifice"? GP's point is that you are playing fast and loose with words here, so much so that your point doesn't make sense. "Community sacrifice" is a much b
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by int_19h 11mo ago
FWIW I'm far left and in favor of UBI, but one thing to keep in mind is that while it's a simple concept, details (i.e. amounts paid and amounts taxed) matter a lot. There's no reason why UBI can't be redistributive if o
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I actually did the math for US once, calculating how much more tax it would take to give everyone minimum wage. The resulting tax rate would certainly be fairly high, but not excessively so; several European countries have higher brackets t
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Russia and some other ex-Soviet states have it, as a leftover of the Soviet system. But it persists because people find it essential.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Raising children is basically a full time job. Why not compensate it as such?
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The economy will stop growing eventually. Nothing grows forever. If we have built our society around the notion of perpetual economic growth, we have already accepted that "everyone will suffer incredibly", and we're only arg
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by int_19h 11mo ago
If Sweden can do it...
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It reminds me of Bujold. “Oh, certainly, you could produce quantities of infants — although it would take enormous resources to do so. Highly trained techs, as well as equipment and supplies. But don’t you see, that’s just the beginning. It
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by int_19h 11mo ago
There's no law that requires any specific practitioner to participate in this program, though.

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